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Results from coronary artery bypass surgery combined abdominal aortic aneurysm repair

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Objective: Complication from coronary artery disease is a major cause of mortality and morbidity in patients undergoing abdominal aortic aneurysm repair. We report our results from coronary artery bypass surgery performed in combination with abdominal aortic aneurysm repair in patients with coronary artery disease and abdominal aortic aneurysm, each being an indication for an emergency operation.Methods: Seventeen patients underwent combined coronary artery bypass surgery and abdominal aortic aneurysm repair. The mean age of the patients was 67.6 ± 5.2 years. Four had left main disease, 8 patients had triple-vessel disease, and 12 had a prior myocardial infarction. The average left ventricular ejection fraction was 0.49 ± 0.13. The average abdominal aortic aneurysm diameter was 6.2 ± 1.0 cm (range 4.5–8.0 cm). Thirteen patients underwent coronary artery bypass surgery followed by abdominal aortic aneurysm repair after discontinuation of cardiopulmonary bypass. In the remaining four patients, including one patient with severe left ventricular dysfunction, cardiopulmonary bypass was continued as a circulatory assist until the abdominal aortic aneurysm repair was completed. The left internal thoracic artery was used in 14 patients, and the right internal thoracic artery in one patient.Results: Postoperative surgical complications occurred in three patients (bleeding in one patient requiring reoperation, abdominal subcutaneous wound infection in another and transient neural disorder in the others). There were no surgical or in-hospital death. There was no late cardiac complication and no late cardiac death after a mean of 29 months follow-up.Conclusions: We concluded that combined surgery was reasonable for selected patients with combined coronary artery disease and abdominal aortic aneurysm, each of which is an indication for an urgent operation.The aortic aneurysm repair during cardiopulmonary bypass for patients with severe left ventricular dysfunction was safe and effective.

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  1. Department of Surgery II, Ehime University School of Medicine, Shitsukawa, Shigenobu, 791-0295, Ehime, Japan

    Kanji Kawachi, Soichiro Kitamura, Shigeki Taniguchi, Tetsuji Kawata, Shuichi Kobayashi, Yoshihiro Hamada, Nobuoki Tabayashi, Tatsuhiro Nakata, Tetsuya Yamamoto & Yasuaki Kashu

  2. Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, National Cardiovascular Center, Osaka, Japan

    Soichiro Kitamura

  3. Department of Surgery III, Nara Medical College, Nara, Japan

    Shigeki Taniguchi, Tetsuji Kawata, Shuichi Kobayashi & Nobuoki Tabayashi

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Kawachi, K., Kitamura, S., Taniguchi, S. et al. Results from coronary artery bypass surgery combined abdominal aortic aneurysm repair. Jpn J Thorac Caridovasc Surg 48, 205–210 (2000). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF03218123

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